Google dropping PageRank?

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If you want to know how it works then here is 12 pages of PDF http://www.vldb.org/conf/2004/RS15P3.PDF
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Wow. That will be some nice study for some evenings

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Old Welsh Guy said:

Trust rank isn't replacing Page Rank, and the page rank we see in the toolbar isn't the value they use in the Ranking algo anyhow. Trust rank is a manual seeding, a value given to a site on an individual basis. It will be ADDED to the algorithm rather than replace PR. Although logic dictates that it will impact on the PR value of a site with regard the ranking algo.

E.G. say a site has managed to link monger a pr6 but the accumulated trust rank value is only 2, then possibly this could counteract the PR value and force the site down the SERP's. A site with a PR4 however, that has been achieved with links from BBC CNN .gov sites etc might have a trustrank value of 5, which could boost the site in the SERP's, because trusted sources are 'voting' for this site, or sites that link to it.

Please note that this is all my take on how things could work rather than how things WILL work, as at this time it is all pretty much specualtion based on the limited amount of information available via releases, patents and white papers.
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That may just be speculation from an old bald Welsh guy but I think it's probably not far off

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IMO TR is already included in PR calculation. but as it is presented in the paper it is the yahoo proposal for their own PR

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tesla said:

Another reason Google shouldn't get rid of pr is because webmasters make money off it. Many webmasters by text links on high pr pages in order to increase their own pr and get traffic. If pr goes, then in theory the business of text links based on pr goes to.
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Actually, that would be a reason for G to get rid of it, as buying links is a artifical manipulation of the SERPs...

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relixx said:

I've heard rumours about the possibility of Google dropping the whole Page Rank thing as it's a false meter (with little effects on the SERPs) and people are concentrating on it too much.
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By definition, PageRank is Google's measure of the importance of a page.

It is the only thing which separates Google from the other search engines.

And, by the way, PageRank most definitely makes a difference in the SERPs, it's just not the number one factor which gets a page to the top.

Bompa

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A page with poor PR is not even fully indexed, specially if it has many sub pages.
MSN and Yahoo also have something similar, but they don't make it public.

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Yahoo webrank is public.

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